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Bar none, the best part was finding that Mulder and Scully's pillow talk consists of toxicology reports and animal tranquilizers

YES YES AND YES. I love them.

and he says that's why they can't be together. Uh, they looked pretty damn "together" to me. That was one of several things I didn't quite understand.

I took that to mean "together anymore", but I'm not sure either. I can't even figure out if Scully was actually living in Mulder's hermit shack or not. Were they already together? Or had they drifted apart, and her needing to find him for the FBI brought them back together? Because she looked awfully at home there, but... the beard and the "you're a psycho hermit" talk suggest otherwise. (And really, would she have let that beard happen if she'd been sleeping with him all the months he was growing it? Ugh.) If they'd been together for the past six years, you'd think it'd take more than a random consulting case to make her go all "OMG you're a crazy UFO freak!", especially if they'd been doing fine for years beforehand.

Conclusion: I just have no idea where they're coming from.

Also loved the little trick with Mulder's cellphone. BWAH! Although I might have appreciated it more with Morgan & Wong on that list as well, but, eh. Still funny.

Wait, what was on the phone? I only got as far as "ha, he's got a Gillian in his contacts list!" and "wait, does he seriously only have four people in his phone?" before the shot ended. I was in bad seats. : (

I cackled at the bit with the boat in the credits. HEE!

There was post-credits stuff? NOOOOOOOOO!!! Sarah wanted to leave, and I was all, "Well, okay, it's not like anything interesting's going to happen anyway..." CURSES.

Okay, the most unbelievable part was that Scully could go from forensic pathologist to brain surgeon in, apparently, very little time.

Uhhhh, maybe she got her brain surgery training online while she was googling stem cell research? :::facepalm:::

I think it didn't work as well for me because M&S were in consultant positions to the FBI rather than agents themselves.

Dunno, I kinda liked the fact that they had an outsider's perspective for once. The plot wasn't their best, though, no.

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GAH THAT'S WHY HE LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. I am made of fail.

this wasn't about the plot, this was about nostalgia and 'ship, not necessarily in that order, and it delivered on both counts, so I'm happy.

Heheheh, yes.

(Okay, I would've been happier if Mulder hadn't had that tribble on his face for the first half hour

Seriously. Seriously. I'm just glad she finally called him on it.